Nazi-era documentation did not overturn Arendt’s original analysis

Evidence

Much more documentary and other material, however, bearing on the Nazi regime, had become available in libraries and archives when the second (paperback) edition appeared in 1958. What I then learned was interesting enough, but it hardly required substantial changes in either the analysis or the argument of my original presentation. Numerous additions and replacements of quotations in the footnotes seemed advisable, and the text was considerably enlarged. But these changes were all of a technical nature. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 36

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Islamophobia scaffolding: the stability of a theory against fuller evidence is itself a test of analytic power.